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Genomic landscape of the signals of positive natural selection in populations of Northern Eurasia: A view from Northern Russia.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2020
Khrunin Andrey V, Khvorykh Gennady V, Fedorov Alexei N, Limborska Svetlana A
Abstract excerpt
Natural selection of beneficial genetic variants played a critical role in human adaptation to a wide range of environmental conditions. Northern Eurasia, despite its severe climate, is home to lots of ethnically diverse populations. The genetic variants associated with the survival of these populations have hardly been analyzed. We searched for the genomic signatures of positive selection in (1) the genome-wide...
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